SELECTED EXHIBITS
“The Posthuman City. Climates. Habitats. Environments,” NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore, 2020
“Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial: Nature,” Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY, USA, 2019-2020
“Nature,” Cube Design Museum, Kerkrade, Netherlands, 2019-2020
“Mushrooms,” Somerset House, London, UK, 2020
“Zur Nachahmung Empfohlen!” Goethe Institüt, Traveling Exhibit: Germany, Chile, Ethiopia, etc, 2010-2018
“Natural Causes,” Ace Hotel / NY Fashion Week, New York, NY, 2016.
“Rooted in Soil,” DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL, USA, 2015-2016
“Science Fiction: New Death,” FACT, Liverpool, UK, 2014
“Biomediations,” TransitioMX Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2013
“Design for Death,” National Funeral Directors Association Convention, Austin, TX, USA, 2013
“Futurotextiles,” Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Lille, France, 2013
Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2012
“Seeking Silicon Valley,” Zero1 Biennial, San Jose, CA, USA, 2012
Incheon Biennale, Incheon, South Korea, 2011
“Without Destination,” Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2011
“Group XXXII,” MAK Center for Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2011
“Artistic Research,” MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011
“Resurrectine,” Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2010
“Seamless: Computational Couture,” Museum of Science, Boston, MA , USA, 2008
“Renegades: 25 Years of Performance Art,” Exit Art, New York, NY, 2007
TALKS + LECTURES
Chris Hadfield Presents: Generator, Toronto, Canada, Jan 2020
“Mushrooms,” Somerset House, London, UK, Jan 2020
“All Systems Go: A Symposium on Art, Social Systems, and Cultural Action,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA, 2019
“Futures of Waste,” Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS), Rice University, USA, 2019-2020
Night of Philosophy, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, 2019 Mesaros Visiting Artist Talk, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA, 2018
Print Screen Festival, Holon, Israel, 2017
Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, Colorado, USA, 2016
True/False Film Festival, Columbia, Missouri, USA, 2016
Zooetics Symposium, Kaunas, Lithuania, 2014
Meta.Morf Biennale, Trondheim, Norway, 2014
Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, Houston, TX, USA, 2014
Maker Summit, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2014
Difficult Dialogues Symposium, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA, 2012
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, 2012
Krakow Theatrical Reminiscences Festival, Krakow, Poland, 2012
Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2012
Sustainable IU, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, 2012
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 2012
TED, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2011
Standard Hotel Talks, New York, NY, 2011
Die Untoten Congress, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany, 2011
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, 2011
Ideafestival, Louisville, KY, 2010
College Art Association Conference, Dallas, TX, 2008
CONFLUX Festival, New York, NY, 2008
HAN University, Arnhem, Netherlands, 2008
PRESS + PUBLICATIONS
Pesce, Nicole Lyn. (2019) Luke Perry was buried in a mushroom suit — which could become a trend, Marketwatch.com, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-woman-who-made-luke-perrys-mushroom- burial-suit-is-shaking-up-the-death-care-market-2019-05-07
Rogers, K. (2016) Mushroom Suits, Biodegradable Coffins and Death’s Green Frontier, New York Times, Business Day. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/business/mushroom-suits-biodegradable-urns-and-deaths-green-frontier.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0
Sorenson, K. (2016) The Mushroom Suit Becomes a New Trend in Burials. NPR, Here and Now. http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/08/18/mushroom-suit-burials
Little, B. (2016) Creative Things to Do With a Dead Body. National Geographic. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/160506-death-funeral-burial-cremation-conservation/
Peters, A. (2016) When You Die, This Mushroom Suit Will Eat Your Body. Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/3056243/when-you-die-this-mushroom-suit-will-eat-your-body
Kwun, A. (2016) Go Green All the Way to the Grave in This “Mushroom Burial Suit” Dwell. https://www.dwell.com/article/matter-of-life-and-death-614975ee
Regensdorff, L. (2016) “Would You Wear a Mushroom-Powered Burial Suit? A Vogue Writer Takes the Plunge” Vogue. https://www.vogue.com/article/infinity-burial-suit-mushrooms-green-design-jae-rhim-lee-coeio
Bauer, U.M. & Trummer, T.D. (Eds.) (2014). AR—Artistic Research. Köln, Germany: Walther König.
Galant, R. (2011) ‘Ninja pajamas’ or ‘mushroom death suit’? CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/20/opinion/lee-mushroom-death-suit
Doctorow, C. (2011) Bioartist training fungi to devour her when she dies. BoingBoing. http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/bioartist-training-fungi-to-devour-her-when-she-dies.html
Wlizlo, W. (2011) The Sustainable Mushroom Death Suit. Utne Reader. https://www.utne.com/science-and-technology/sustainable-mushroom-death-suit-jae-rhim-lee#axzz2VPITH7HI
George, A. (2011) Designing a mushroom death suit. New Scientist. http:// www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/07/designing-a-mushroom-death-suit.html
Rowan, D (2011) Report: TEDGlobal 2011, day 2: The Infinity Burial Project. Wired UK. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-07/14/tedglobal-day-2
Goehler, A. (Ed.) (2010). Zur Nachahmung Empfohlen! Expeditionen in Aesthetik und Nachhaltigkeit, Berlin, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Sterling, B. (2009) Hey Look, MIT Students! A Leftover FEMA Trailer! Wired. https://www.wired.com/2009/06/hey-look-mit-students-a-leftover-fema-trailer/
Fessler, P. (2008) Trailer Graveyards Haunt FEMA, Neighbors. NPR. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92183909
GRANTS/AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
Senior TED Fellowship, New York, NY, USA, 2020-present
TED Fellowship, New York, NY, USA, 2011-2020
500 Startups Accelerator, Mountain View, CA, 2016
d.Fellowship, Institute of Design, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 2014-2015
Special Jury Award, Design for Death Competition, DesignBoom, 2013
Boston Center for the Arts, Residency, Boston, MA, USA, 2013
MAK Schindler Scholarship, MAK Center for Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2011
Institüt für Raumexperimente/Studio Olafur Eliasson, Universität der Künste, Grant, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Creative Capital Foundation, Grant, New York, NY, USA, 2009
MIT Council for the Arts, Grant, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009
Headlands Center for the Arts, Invited Residency, Sausalito, CA, USA, 2008
Peter de Florez ’38 Grant, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2006
Graduate Fellowship, Visual Arts Program, MIT Department of Architecture, Cambridge, MA, USA 2004-2006.